Official Suspended

METRO

August 10, 1989

CAN REQUEST HEARING. Oakland Town Council members have suspended Town Administrator Bernese Fleming with pay for 30 days, accusing her of failing to adequately perform her job. Fleming has been on an unpaid temporary leave of absence for about three months because of surgery. The administrator will have five days to request a public hearing to argue why she should not be fired. The resolution to suspend Fleming was drafted by council member Virgil Shofner and voted on Tuesday. It said the administrator failed to designate someone to do her job during her ''excessive absences,'' repeatedly was not available to employees during working hours, refused to accept additional duties specified by the council and ''repeatedly has shown blatant insubordination by public displays of rudeness and hostility'' to town residents and council members during town meetings.